Are we all just going to ignore the fact that there's literally a utopia isolated up in the Himalayas?

Are we all just going to ignore the fact that there's literally a utopia isolated up in the Himalayas?

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>literally a utopia isolated up in the Himalayas?


which is?

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Bhutan. I never see threads about the country on Sup Forums despite the fact that it's paradise on Earth.
>clean
>stable government
>traditional Buddhist values
>beautiful nature and architechture
>the King is called the Thunder Dragon King

it was sarcasm, mostly because people are a bit unawares as to the realities of bhutan beyond it's image as a peaceful shangri la

>realities
Enlighten me. Other than persecuting Hindus and Christians decades ago (which you have to admit made the country cleaner) I really can't find any flaws. Lack of modern technology and care for traditional lifestyles is a win in my book.

>implying any of you amerifats can make the climb out of your basement let alone that mountain

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i tried to fart but instead i SHART

>Lack of modern technology

So being undeveloped and behind the times ia good thing? What's with westerners and this mentality.

A country can choose to not industrialize. What's with Westerners and this "industrialized = good" mentality?

buddhists are fucking awful, they want you to think buddhism is a religion of peace but really they are murderous persecutors

Typically it's either boredom with the fact that they have a 9-5 job and obligations that prevent them from exploring the world as they wanted when younger, or it's a result of them being too poorfag to be able to do anything other than be a wage slave with no expendable income as a result of living in an industrialized nation.

Pick your poison.

Thats rad, probably the jews hide the trasures there and thats why we heard so little of it in the media.

>What's with Westerners and this "industrialized = good" mentality?
Electric heating, penicillin, and porn.

It's actually really nice.

People lived traditional lifestyles all across the world for thousands of years before any of those inventions and managed to survive. Traditional architechture and insulation/heating, etc. Obviously it has drawbacks, mainly like you said in medicine, but the fact that people have had stable governments for years without modern innovations shows that it still works out.

>BUTANE IN BHUTAN
>SHART IN CHAD
>DIARRHEA IN NIGERIA

>People lived traditional lifestyles all across the world for thousands of years before any of those inventions and managed to survive
To the ripe old age of 45, and while freezing their asses off. You think the poverty rate's bad now? Try being a 12th century peasant.

Bhutan has advanced quite a lot further from feudalism. Their government is actually quite modern, they just forgo a lot of useless junk that complicates our lives.

Well perhaps most telling is that I had three bhutanese classmates; the reason they came here rather than study in bhutan was because they felt there was no international school in bhutan which offered a good enough foreign diploma to get into a european/american university, and all of them (well, two were brothers) hoped to immigrate to america and take their families out of bhutan

First and foremost it should be said that Bhutan is in fact a fairly poor country, not far above India, and has all the problems associated with it-low levels of human development, a quarter of the population living below the poverty line, a fairly low lifespan and level of literacy (more than half the population have never gone to school( , high levels of maternal and infant mortality, etc

One also needs to consider the quite honestly terrible influence it's giant neighbour has had in it. I've been there myself once, and where Bhutanese people will tell you India provided them with roads (via DANTAK, I think) and opened the country to the world, to anyone else it's a clear cut case of some extortion-to paraphrase a quote I read elsewhere, it's as if they were gifted a half broken, barely functional car with a warranty that could ensure they have to repair it at the some shop, forever. The roads are in terrible condition, and with no local labour to provide repairs, DANTAK is able to charge the country to re-repair the roads. The terrible infrastructure is such that I'm fairly certain it would be factored into any investors decisions regarding Bhutan. The country is reliant on India for technology, and the massive trade difference and dumping of low quality product is certainly not good for it.

What's more, Delhi directs Bhutans foreign and defence policies to an extent that some say the ambassador of India to Bhutan was forced to resign for his failure to prevent Bhutan forming ties with Beijing, which accuses India of treating the country like a protectorate. It may sound funny coming from China, but they're not entirely wrong-India withdrew it's subsidies to Bhutan before the elections in a clear power play-so long as this continues the country may never properly develop without investment from countries beyond India.

And consider for all that Bhutan maintained that their Gross National Happiness was high and was referred to as the happiest country in the world, an international study of the same placed Bhutan at only 84-the Bhutanese claim seems like blatant propoganda in comparison; and the Bhutan Foundation program director Ugen Chodenonce commented

“There has been too much focus on promoting GNH rather than creating such an enabling environment for happiness to happen. Despite the positive publicity for Bhutan in the course of spreading GNH, we have sent out a wrong message and as a result, most of the outside world wrongly thinks we are the happiest country in the world. We continue to remain a small country challenged by numerous factors, such as our geographic terrain making it impossible to take healthcare and education to every corner and … the imbalance of trade with India that has lead to a serious shortage of foreign currency.”

There is also, of course, the ethnic cleansing of the Lothsampas, wherein they booted out a whole sixth of their population, and discriminate hard against the remainder, rather contrary to the buddhist values you stated are ever prevalent whether or not it made the country cleaner I don't quite know but I guess if you don't want to consider that I'll say no more on it.


Don't get me wrong, I do agree with you that it has a beautiful nature and architecture, and for most part the people are pious and pleasant, exclusive of the aforementioned lothsampa problem, but it's far from a perfect paradise the way it's perceived by foreigners.

It's basically an Indian Reservation but with prettier land and less alcoholics. Really doesn't seem that great to me.

How do you type so fucking fast?

wtf I hate india now

He asked me 33 minutes ago though?
great regional powers try to exert influence and keep it's neighbours in it's rein and control, for different ways of the same goal, just see china and north korea or even the USA and the monroe doctrine

Ah shit, I knew it was too good to be true. Oh well, at least I can still admire the architechture. Thanks for imforming me, spicebro.

he was talking about technology and undevelopment, not industrialization. as you may know, those are differnet set of things that dont depend on each other if we go by your assertion that not every country develops with industriazliation ..adn stil get technology by importing it. moreover you have the luxury to have a condescending view on a conutrie's industrialization, not an easy choice for those whose people sleep on dirt you fucking fagot

why do ameriniggers love being self righteous shitfucks

It's not a condescending view, I'm glad my country industrialized, but for a country of 700k in the Himalayas I figured a traditional lifestyle could be beneficial. Apparently it's still a shithole but my point is I don't have an ideological objection to industrialization (and the rapid modernization it brings), I just think if a country wants to stay traditionak they should be able to.

maybe, maybe they dont want to live like shit.
i wont blame them if they want to introduce technology, or "open up", even if that ruins the image outsiders want them to preserve. as for the model of development, which they should consider if they dont wnat people living in shit, it could be touristic

>India withdrew it's subsidies to Bhutan before the elections in a clear power play

yeah that was Nepal. Not bhutan.

Also tiny as fuck irrelevant countries getting influenced by their giant af neighbors is a fact of life. No point complaining.

But does it have wi-fi?

As someone who lives in a developing country and just spent a month in the hospital, fuck you and your stupid white girl attitude.

All you have to do is Google
But yes, they flex their power on Nepal too now that you want to bring it up

>Also tiny as fuck irrelevant countries getting influenced by their giant af neighbors is a fact of life.

and i did in fact say it's not different from what China or even the US do

Bhutan isn't a paradise but it deserves credit for a clean environment (especially for a 3rd world country) and low amount of corruption. Nice place though, I hope things work out for the best and they eventually become more independent in the future.

our relatives :)

It's more about protecting ourselves from China and less about power jerkoffs.